previously missed<\/a> the 2022 and 2018 World Cup tournaments, although they snuck in a title in the international Euro Cup 2020 tournament, which was played a year late in 2021 because of the COVID-19 shutdown.<\/p>\n\u201cBut it\u2019s incredible how Italians haven\u2019t had that team. They really need to,\u201d Greco lamented, saying he still wasn\u2019t sure who to root for in place of Italy.<\/p>\n
The World Cup is set to kick off June 11 with 48 teams, but not the Azzuri. Thousands of tourists from all over the world are expected to visit the Big Apple during the tournament, with eight games to be played at Met Life stadium.<\/p>\n
David Greco, who owns Mike\u2019s Deli, told The Post, \u201cNowadays, when soccer games are on, we put the TV on and we have a beer from Naples.\u201d David DeTurris\/NY Post<\/p>\n
Italy fans are left having to adopt another squad to root for or crying in their vino.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery bad, very bad,\u201d is how Orazio Carciotto \u2013 owner of Casa Della Mozzarella just around the corner \u2013 felt when he found out Italy won\u2019t be playing in the World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was looking forward to it. The game, it\u2019s something to talk about. You wake up in the morning, see it\u2019s the Italy game, you enjoy life!\u201d Carciotto said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carciotta said he\u2019s not just wounded that Italy won\u2019t be playing out of a sense of national pride \u2013 he\u2019s also worried that the lack of attention on Italy may hurt his business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBusiness-wise, it ruins everything,\u201d Carciotto said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The owner of Casa Della Mozzarella, Orazio Carciotto, who operates his store around the corner of Mike\u2019s Deli, responded to Italy\u2019s failure on missing the World Cup once more as \u201cVery bad, very bad.\u201d David DeTurris\/NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause people, when there\u2019s a soccer game, they say \u2018Italy\u2019s going to be playing tonight!\u2019 and they get together. They buy a sandwich. They buy mozzarella. They buy cannolis. It\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the dual-citizen said it won\u2019t be hard to find a team to root for in Italy\u2019s place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA guy like me, I\u2019m an American citizen \u2013 and an Italian citizen \u2013 so I have something to look forward to. Go USA!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Rossville, Staten Island, where nearly 60% of its residents are Italian, locals said they\u2019ll miss the sense of spirit that comes with an Italian crowd that\u2019s rooting for an Italian team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crowds are always better when it\u2019s an Italian team!\u201d Lucille Borgese, owner of Hot Shotz Sports Bar in Rossville, told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Borgese said that paisanos always bring a new energy when rooting for their team \u2013 that dies as soon as Italy is no longer a contender.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe were all cheering. I had my Italian flags out. And then the bar was empty as soon as they got knocked out. Like you turned the lights off,\u201d Borgese said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And for some, the lack of an Italian team comes with financial drawbacks too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cItalian Americans are the best tippers! And when their teams win they set a new standard on tipping. So, I\u2019d rather Italy was still in it,\u201d Trina Scotto, a bartender at Hot Shotz, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a local disgrazia! The World Cup is coming to the New York area in a few weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4858,57,9,56,63,65,64,134,129,58,23681,14771],"class_list":["post-219144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-italy","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-staten-island","tag-the-bronx","tag-us-news","tag-us-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}